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MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 795 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN, See also:LUTHER (1748-1826) , See also:American lawyer, was See also:born in New See also:Brunswick, New See also:Jersey, on the 9th of See also:February 1748. He graduated at the See also:college of New Jersey (now See also:Princeton University) at the See also:head of a class of See also:thirty-five in 1766, and immediately afterwards removed to See also:Maryland, teaching at See also:Queenstown in that See also:colony until 1770, and being admitted to the See also:bar in 1771. He practised See also:law for a See also:short See also:time in See also:Virginia, then returned to Maryland, and became recognized as the See also:leader of the Maryland bar and as one of the ablest lawyers in the See also:United States. From 1778 to 1805 he was See also:attorney-See also:general of Maryland; in 1814-1816 he was See also:chief See also:judge of the See also:court of Oyer and Terminer for the See also:city of See also:Baltimore; and in 1818-1822 he was attorney-general of Maryland. He was one of Maryland's representatives in the See also:Continental See also:Congress in 1784-1785 and in the Constitutional See also:Convention of 1787 at See also:Philadelphia, but opposed the constitution and refused to affix his See also:signature. He subsequently allied himself with the Federalists, and was an opponent of See also:Thomas See also:Jefferson, who in 1807 spoke of him as the "Federal See also:Bull-See also:Dog." His ability was shown in his famous See also:defence of Judge See also:Samuel See also:Chase (q.v.) in the See also:impeachment trial before the United States See also:Senate in 1804-1805, and in his defence of See also:Aaron See also:Burr (q.v.) against the See also:charge of See also:treason in 1807. He has been See also:character and private See also:life. See also:Sir See also:Theodore Martin died on the 18th of See also:August 1909.

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